Eric+Raymond

= **Eric Raymond** =  Eric Raymond was born December 4, 1957 in Boston, Massachussets hes a computer programmer and an open source software advocate. He became involved with hacker culture in 1976, and he established his first [|free software] project in the late 1980s. His main contribution the open source would have to be maintaining the fetchmail and gpsd, hes also contributed to libraries like GNU. Raymond is also wrote [|CML2], a source code configuration system, It was supposed to be use in the [|Linux kernel], but rejected by kernel developers. Raymond is also the author of How to documments and FAQs and are included in the [|Linux D][|ocumentation Project] . Another book called the [|The Art of Unix Programming]covers the history of Unix and also the culture.

He also took on the self-appointed role of ambassador of [|open source] business and public. The release the code for [|Mozilla] (then [|Netscape]) in 1998, it was an early accomplishment. Eric Raymond has had his share of public disputes with other figures of the open source movement. He addressed some of his critics from the software community in an essay called "Take My Job, Please!", in it the essay he said"back to the hilt" anyone qualified and willing to take his job and present the case for open source to the world. In February 2005, Raymond stepped down as the president of the [|Open Source Initiative]. Then he stepped down from being president of Open Source Initiative.

He comes out in the movie Revolution OS talking about The open Source movement and how they wanted it to be free for he people to use it and change it if they wanted to. 

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